Boron was not recognized as an element until it was isolated by Sir Humphry Davy and by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard.

King Mohammad Yaqub Khan with Britain's Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari | Sir Pierre Cavagnari on May 26, 1879, when the Treaty of Gandamak was signed.

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

Writers such as James Boswell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Kenneth Grahame, Muriel Spark and Sir Walter Scott all lived and worked in Edinburgh.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

List of monarchs of Afghanistan | King Mohammad Yaqub Khan | Yaqub Khan with Britain's Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari on May 26, 1879, when the Treaty of Gandamak was signed.

After the British invasion following the killing of Sir Louis Cavagnari in 1879, Yaqub Khan, Yahya Khan and his sons, Princes Mohammad Yusuf Khan and Mohammad Asef Khan, were seized by the British and transferred under custody to the British Raj, where they forcibly remained until the two princes were invited back to Afghanistan by Emir Abdur Rahman Khan in the last year of his reign ( 1901 ).

The battle of the name raged on for many years and drove a wedge between Louis and LeGros Clark, Sir Wilfrid from 1955, who took the Paranthropus view.

" Robin shoots with Sir Guy " by Louis Rhead

Famous alumni include Nobel Laureate in nuclear physics Sir John Cockcroft, aeroplane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the Lancaster bomber Roy Chadwick, while famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna Neumann, Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist Henry Lipson.

Warwick and Margaret were previously sworn enemies, but Margaret's attendants ( in particular Sir John Fortescue, formerly Chief Justice during Henry VI's reign ) and Louis eventually persuaded her to ally the House of Lancaster with Warwick.

Starting off playing at a club called Kingsbury's in Madison, Illinois, within a year Turner had built up a full gig schedule, establishing his group as one of the most highly rated on the St. Louis club circuit, vying for popularity with their main competition, Sir John's Trio featuring Chuck Berry.

On 4 January 1315, King Edward II of England, writing to King Louis X of France, said that he had heard of the death of ' Sir John de Balliol ' and requested the fealty and homage of Edward Balliol to be given by proxy.

Designers and artists such as Karl Lagerfeld, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema have created original designs for Steinway pianos.

Famous examples include Louis Roederer's Cristal, Laurent-Perrier's Grand Siècle, Moët & Chandon's Dom Pérignon, Duval-Leroy's Cuvée Femme and Pol Roger's Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill.

Some of his knights pleaded Count Louis to return to the camp: " Sir, get you hence, for you are too sorely wounded, and in two places.

The theme tune for the series was Fanfare from the Facade Suite No 2 ', by Sir William Walton, played by the City of Birmingham Orchestra, conducted by Louis Frémaux.

Many of the roads in the area have aviation-related names: Alcock Road ( Alcock and Brown ), Brabazon Road ( Brabazon ), Bleriot Road ( Louis Blériot ), Cobham Road ( Sir Alan Cobham ), De Havilland Road ( de Havilland ), Norman Crescent ( Nigel Norman ), Phoenix Way ( Heston Phoenix ), Sopwith Road ( Thomas Sopwith ), Spitfire Way ( Supermarine Spitfire ), Whittle Road ( Frank Whittle ), and Wright Road ( the Wright brothers ).

Designers and artists whose work is on display in the galleries include Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Grinling Gibbons, Daniel Marot, Louis Laguerre, Antonio Verrio, Sir James Thornhill, William Kent, Robert Adam, Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, Canova, Thomas Chippendale, Pugin, William Morris.

Among the other historical figures depicted are William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas and his brother David ( mostly their violent deaths in 1440 ), Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway ( protagonist of the second novel ), Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar, William Crichton, 1st Lord Crichton, Charles VII of France and his Dauphin ( Louis XI and Agnès Sorel.

" Sir Philip Sidney: World Bibliography, Saint Louis University.

* Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, 1st Baronet, of the City of Montreal, in the County of Montreal ( 1854 ), extinct 1867

Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine ( or La Fontaine, or LaFontaine ), 1st Baronet, KCMG ( October 4, 1807 – February 26, 1864 ) was the first Canadian to become Prime Minister of the United Province of Canada and the first head of a responsible government in Canada .< ref > He was born in Boucherville, Lower Canada in 1807.

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Zoé Lafontaine, Lady Laurier ( June 26, 1841 – November 1, 1921 ) was the wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada.

* November 1-Zoé Lafontaine, wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada ( b. 1842 )

* June 26-Zoé Lafontaine, wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada ( died 1921 )

Bagot did allow Robert Baldwin and Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine to form a ministry on the basis of their parliamentary majority.

The bank ’ s 60 honorary directors included Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Louis-Joseph Papineau and Sir George-Étienne Cartier.

* Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine ( 1807 – 1864 ), jurist, politician

* Sir John Barrow, An Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart., Late of the Admiralty ( London, 1847 ).

Due to translations into English, the first being done by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart., and other translations such as in Everyman's Library and Penguin Classics Gerald's works on Wales are well known today.

* Scottish Kings, a Revised Chronology of Scottish History, 1005 – 1625, by Sir Archibald H. Dunbar, Bart., Edinburgh, 1899, p. 256.

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Sir Hugo Hirst, baronet | Bart, around 1930

: " English Embroideries Belonging to Sir John Carew Pole, Bart ", Walpole Society Annual, 1932 – 33, Vol.

* Ten members enrolled on January, 1793: Sir Jeremiah Wallescourt, Lord Kulmstead, Lord George Fanshawe, Anthony Holte, John Hastings ( Lord Timothy's cousin ), Lord Everingham, Sir George Vigor, Bart., The Hon.

* A Gay Adventurer A biography of Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart.

The grave of Sir Joseph Whitworth Bart.

Sir John Robert Mowbray Bart MP.

was used by former Colonial Governor Sir William Keith, Bart.

After being forced out of the Governorship by Hannah Penn, Sir William Keith, Bart.

In March 1728, Sir William Keith, Bart.

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", " Mrs Orchardson ", " Conditional Neutrality " ( a portrait of Orchardson's eldest son as a boy of six ), " Lord Rookwood ", " The Provost of Aberdeen " and, above all, " Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart.

His mother was Katherine Gordon ( 1620 – 1663 ) the daughter of Sir Robert Gordon 1st Bart of Gordonstoun ( 1580 – 1654 ).

Peter, grandson of De Budworth and ancestor of Sir Peter Warburton, second Bart.

* An Auto-Biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart, Late of the Admiralty.

" His nephew, Nathan Garrick, married Martha Leigh, daughter of Sir Egerton Leigh, Bart and sister of Sir Samuel Egerton Leigh, author of Munster Abbey ; a Romance: Interspersed with Reflections on Virtue and Morality ( Edinburgh 1797 ).

" Sir John Acton, Bart.

He was the eponymous hero in the serial Ivanhoe, a very loose adaptation of the romantic novel by Sir Walter Scott, and he also appeared in the series The Alaskans, as well as playing Beau Maverick, an English-accented cousin of frontier gamblers Bret Maverick ( James Garner ) and Bart Maverick ( Jack Kelly ) in Maverick.

* Sir Fortescue Flannery Bart.